Students could replicate the experiment using cress, but instead of focusing on the soil uptake, give the plants different quantities of fertiliser in their soil to test its effect on growth.

Biologists have uncovered a surprising connection between the way plants grow and how they defend themselves against ...

Experiments showed that plants with genetic ... is vital and the more we understand the mechanisms that control plant growth, the closer we are to designing systems to help plants to do this ...

With an increasing frequency and intensity of flooding events and an eye to capitalize on a common rice production technique, ...

Plant growth and development largely depend on the ... Symbiotic phosphate transport in arbuscular mycorrhizas. Trends in Plant Science 10, 22-29 (2005). Limpens E. & T. Bisseling.

One of its recent experiments involved growing cowpea ... while capturing images to track plant growth, added ISRO. According to the space agency, this setup successfully supported the germination ...

ISRO shared the success of this experiment on the social media platform 'X', stating, “Life begins in space! VSSC's CROPS experiment was successfully conducted on PSLV-C60 POEM-4.

Among them was the CROPS experiment, designed by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), to investigate plant growth in the unique environment of microgravity. In a post shared on X ...

In 1634, Jan Baptist van Helmont was arrested by agents of the Spanish Inquisition for the crime of studying plants and other phenomena. While under house arrest, he started to consider how plants ...